April 11, 2009
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UN attempts to force sweatshop production on Haiti
Ban Ki-moon’s suggestion that the Haitian government prioritises garment assembly FTZs at the forthcoming donors’ conference is, says the HSG’s Charles Arthur, ‘a slap in the face’ for President Rene Preval and Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis who, following last year’s food riots and hurricane disasters, have repeatedly stressed the importance of national production, in particular,… Continue reading
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Andrei KONUROV: NATO uses Afghanistan to turn into a global organization
Although the participants of the G20 summit managed to avoid debates, the agreement they had achieved appears to be very unreliable and as the crisis will go deeper, no signs of cooperation will remain. And the crisis will surely go stronger since all the measures the allies had agreed on, are actually in no way… Continue reading